Whenever there is an incident of rape, most people tend to say that it was the girl or woman s fault, and question her character, social class, outfit, sexual experience, and lifestyle.
After the news of the rape and subsequent death of a 17-year-old O-level student was published Thursday night, many took to social media to blame the girl.
At a Dhaka court yesterday, 18-year-old Fardin Iftekhar Dihan confessed to his role in killing the girl after raping her. The doctor who did the postmortem also said excessive bleeding due to injuries from the rape led to her death.
Nevertheless, people on social media keep saying that it was consensual sex and should not be called rape. The girl went on a date with her boyfriend… If the girl had any decency, she would have never gone to her boyfriend s flat before marriage, commented a Facebook user under the post of a news report about the incident.